Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference

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25th BSPC in Riga, group picture on August 29, 2016
28th BSPC 2019 in Oslo, group picture in Storting

The BSPC ( Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference , abbr. BSPC ) is a federation of national and regional parliaments in the Baltic Sea region and with reference to the Baltic Sea region. The conference takes place annually and was founded in 1991 on the initiative of the Finnish President Mauno Koivisto , the successor to Urho Kekkonen . Its aim is to promote a common identity within the Baltic Sea Region through close cooperation between the national and regional parliaments.

Members

Map of the member states

The body currently consists of eleven national and regional parliaments and five parliamentary institutions from the Baltic Sea region, including Russia , Norway , Iceland and Greenland . The following parliaments from Germany participate in the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference: the German Bundestag , the Bremen Citizenship , the Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament .

National Parliaments

Regional parliaments

Parliamentary institutions

target

The conference serves to strengthen the common identity of the Baltic Sea region and promotes the discussion and the exchange of information between the parliaments involved and with other bodies and organizations at international and interregional level. Furthermore, the Baltic Sea parliamentarians take on common ecological, social and economic issues, initiate appropriate political measures and accompany them.

job

The representatives of the people meet once a year to formulate their demands on their own governments, the EU, the Baltic Sea Council and other actors in the Baltic Sea region. The BSPC Standing Committee prepares the conference together with the respective host country and monitors the implementation of the resolutions passed by the parliamentarians. In addition, the representatives deal with changing current topics in working groups, the findings of which are also included in the resolutions. The working groups usually fulfill their mandate for a period of two years. After the mandate of a working group has expired, the Standing Committee often appoints a rapporteur who follows developments in the subject area dealt with by the working group and reports regularly to the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference.

In 2002, the conference was granted observer status at the environmental organization HELCOM , which the President of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament, Sylvia Bretschneider , assumes together with the Finnish MEP Christina Gestrin for the current meeting period and follows the relevant activities of the HELCOM committees.

Conferences

No. place country date
1 Helsinki FinlandFinland Finland 7th to 9th January 1991
2 Oslo NorwayNorway Norway April 22-24, 1992
3 Warsaw PolandPoland Poland May 5-6, 1994
4th Rønne DenmarkDenmark Denmark September 12-13, 1995
5 Riga LatviaLatvia Latvia September 10-11, 1996
6th Danzig PolandPoland Poland September 15-16, 1997
7th Lübeck GermanyGermany Germany September 7th to 8th, 1998
8th Mariehamn ÅlandÅland Åland September 7th to 8th, 1999
9 Malmo SwedenSweden Sweden September 4-5, 2000
10 Greifswald GermanyGermany Germany September 3-4, 2001
11 St. Petersburg RussiaRussia Russia September 30th to October 1st, 2002
12 Oulu FinlandFinland Finland September 7th to 9th, 2003
13 Mountains NorwayNorway Norway August 29th to 31st, 2004
14th Vilnius LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania August 29-30, 2005
15th Reykjavík IcelandIceland Iceland September 3rd to 5th, 2006
16 Berlin GermanyGermany Germany August 27-28, 2007
17th Visby SwedenSweden Sweden September 1st to 2nd, 2008
18th Nyborg DenmarkDenmark Denmark August 31 to September 1, 2009
19th Mariehamn ÅlandÅland Åland August 29th to 31st, 2010
20th Helsinki FinlandFinland Finland August 28-30, 2011
21st St. Petersburg RussiaRussia Russia August 26-28, 2012
22nd Parnu EstoniaEstonia Estonia August 25-27, 2013
23 Olsztyn PolandPoland Poland August 24-26, 2014
24 Rostock GermanyGermany Germany August 31 to September 1, 2015
25th Riga LatviaLatvia Latvia August 28th to 30th, 2016
26th Hamburg GermanyGermany Germany 3rd to 5th September 2017
27 Mariehamn ÅlandÅland Åland August 26-28, 2018
28 Oslo NorwayNorway Norway August 25-27, 2019
29 Vilnius LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 23rd to 25th August 2020

structure

Handover of the presidency from Jānis Vucāns to Carola Veit

Presidency

During the 25th conference, Carola Veit , President of the Hamburg Parliament, took over the presidency for the period 2016–2017. The Åland Islands Parliament ( Lagting ) will chair the 2017-2018 period and host the 2018 annual conference.

General Secretariat

The general secretariat of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference is taken over by the administration of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Web links

Commons : Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference  - collection of images

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamburg citizenship